{"id":176,"date":"2008-12-11T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/11\/rim-eats-chalk\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:53:23","slug":"rim-eats-chalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/rim-eats-chalk\/","title":{"rendered":"RIM eats Chalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SUFbr60cOhI\/AAAAAAAADbA\/bsO3MSWtodU\/s1600-h\/BlackBerry_Logo_Preferred_Colour_R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;width:200px;height:44px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SUFbr60cOhI\/AAAAAAAADbA\/bsO3MSWtodU\/s200\/BlackBerry_Logo_Preferred_Colour_R.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry.com\/\">Blackberry<\/a> maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rim.com\/\">Research in Motion<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercewireless.com\/press-releases\/rim-acquire-chalk-media-corp\">acquiring<\/a> mobile content deployment solutions provider (quite a mouthful!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chalk.com\/\">Chalk Media<\/a> for $18.7m in cash. Chalk to what they call &#8220;pushcasts&#8221;, which &#8211; if I understand it correctly &#8211; is basically pushing podcasts to smartphones. The Vancouver-based company is listed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsx.com\/\">Toronto Stock Exchange<\/a>, so it still requires shareholder approval, and the deal is therefore not closed yet.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:hand;width:128px;height:40px;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SUFcPLRHYdI\/AAAAAAAADbI\/m18qfqMDhzo\/s200\/Chalk+Media+Logo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>The move is a neat one: podcasts are increasingly used in the corporate environment for staff communications of all sorts, and the enterprise being the stronghold for RIM, it makes a lot of sense to strengthen its service offering by adding such a tool.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>RIM has of course got under fire by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphone.com\/\">iPhone<\/a> and this will presumably continue being the case also by the higher-end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.android.com\/\">Android<\/a>-based phones who have been nibbling away (see <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/is-iphone-new-blackberry.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.techrepublic.com.com\/hiner\/?p=575\">here<\/a>) on the Blackberry&#8217;s pedestal as the businessman&#8217;s (and woman&#8217;s) favourite gadget. A lot to defend then, and the price would therefore not seem to be excessive at all&#8230; Stringent rationale, me thinks&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackberry maker Research in Motion is acquiring mobile content deployment solutions provider (quite a mouthful!) Chalk Media for $18.7m in cash. Chalk to what they call &#8220;pushcasts&#8221;, which &#8211; if I understand it correctly &#8211; is basically pushing podcasts to smartphones. The Vancouver-based company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, so it still requires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[484],"tags":[50,1350,79,119,194,310,522,543,555,561,595],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oem","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-blackberry","tag-chalk-media","tag-enterprise","tag-iphone","tag-podcast","tag-pushcast","tag-research-in-motion","tag-rim","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-2Q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}